https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1204 en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15952 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:06:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15952-morphosiss-highly-sculpted-art-museum-in-orange-county-responds-to-its-urban-context With its dramatic forms, the art center’s design creates dynamic indoor-outdoor spaces.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15886 Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:00:05 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15886-the-community-centered-orange-county-museum-by-morphosis-opens-in-southern-california OCMA-1.jpg The $94 million, 53,000-square-foot project by Morphosis is finally complete, nearly 14 years after the Los Angeles-based firm won the competition to design it. Photo © Mike Kelly OCMA 3 MK_result2.webp Photo © Mike Kelley OCMA 2 MK_result2.webp Photo © Mike Kelley 16. 13 Women Install _result2.webp Installation view of 13 Women, on view through August 20, 2023 at the Orange County Museum of Art. Photo © ofstudio                                         http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15755 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15755-design-ed-podcast-arne-emerson http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15584 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15584-alison-mayne-house-by-morphosis http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15096 Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15096-hanking-center-by-morphosis-architects Hanking-Center-01-B.jpg The entrance to Hanking Center’s podium on the west leads to a mix of activities. Photo © Zhang Chao http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14475 Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14475-casablanca-finance-city-tower-by-morphosis The new building will be the museum’s first permanent home.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14218 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14218-morphosis-architects-unveils-designs-for-korean-american-national-museum The new Korean American National Museum will be located in Los Angeles’ Koreatown district. Image courtesy Morphosis Architects The two-story building will feature a rooftop garden and terrace with native Korean plant species. Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Thom Mayne’s firm has designed a new home for OCMA at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13473 Thu, 31 May 2018 14:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13473-orange-county-museum-of-art-unveils-design-for-new-building-by-morphosis The grand outdoor stair will join the museum to Argyros Plaza. Image courtesy Morphosis Architects View from Argyros Plaza of OCMA’s main entrance, located near Richard Serra’s monumental sculpture “Connector” Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Image courtesy Morphosis Architects The roof terrace will provide space for events and gatherings. Image courtesy Morphosis Architects The roof terrace will provide space for for multi-media art and performances, such as Janet Biggs video installation “A Step On the Sun,” shown in this rendering. Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bridges to the educational hall and mezzanine gallery spaces cross overhead in the light-filled entrance lobby atrium. Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Model showing extensive glazing of the educational hall, which hovers over the building’s main entrance Photo © Morphosis Architects Model showing the building’s main entrance Photo © Morphosis Architects Model showing the building’s overall form Photo © Morphosis Architects goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) On an island in New York, Cornell Tech opens a high-tech campus that marries education and entrepreneurship.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13057 Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13057-cornell-tech-dreams-big-on-roosevelt-island 1711-Colleges-Universities-Continuing-Education-01.jpg A new campus on an island in New York’s East River marries high-tech education and entrepreneurship. Photo © Iwan Baan The campus plaza and Tech Walk, between The Bridge (above right) and Bloomberg Center (above left), stem from a master plan by SOM for Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island complex. Photo © Field Condition The campus plaza and Tech Walk, between The Bridge (above right) and Bloomberg Center (above left), stem from a master plan by SOM for Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island complex. Photo © Albert Vecerka/Esto Image courtesy James Corner Field Operations The first academic building at Cornell Tech makes a gleaming, bold statement.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13058 Wed, 01 Nov 2017 06:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13058-bloomberg-center-by-morphosis-architects-at-cornell-tech 1711-Colleges-Universities-Continuing-Education-Cornell-Tech-Bloombery-Center-Morphosis-Architects-01.jpg Morphosis has designed an aluminum rainscreen wall system, which maximizes insulation values and minimizes thermal bridging for the building. The hope is to achieve net zero status. Photo © Matthew Carbone 1711-Colleges-Universities-Continuing-Education-Cornell-Tech-Bloombery-Center-Morphosis-Architects-02.jpg The lily pad–shaped solar canopy, carrying photovoltaic panels, juts like a visor over the southern end of the Bloomberg Center. Photo © Matthew Carbone The café at the entrance to the Center is open to the general public. Highlighting the swerving counter and soffit is an expansive artwork by Michael Riedel. Titled Cornell Tech Mag, the piece is a black-and-white inkjet print on acoustical ceiling panels and is also silkscreened on the café’s tabletops. Photo © Matthew Carbone At the entrance, a four-story part of the atrium is given drama by the curving balustrades and bowed walls. Photo © Matthew Carbone A long, three-story-high galleria extends along the western portion of the Center. Here glass boxes on the third and fourth levels seem to float in the space, overlooking the locker pavilions adjoining reading tables below. Photo © Matthew Carbone Cornell Tech Mag, Michael Riedel (café ceiling and table tops, ground floor) Photo by EPW Studio/Maris Hutchinson Everything that Rises Must Converge, Matthew Ritchie (entry atrium, ground through fourth floors) Photo by EPW Studio/Maris Hutchinson Ordinary objects of Extraordinary Beauty, Matthew Day Jackson (meeting room 238, second floor) Photo by EPW Studio/Maris Hutchinson Reclamation, Alison Elizabeth Taylor (meeting room 477, fourth floor) Photo by EPW Studio/Maris Hutchinson Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Image courtesy Morphosis Architects The natural environment of the Cornell campus is startling,' says Thom Mayne, of Morphosis, about the gorge-riven and forested terrain of the 149-year-old university in Ithaca, New York.

]]> 1411-bill-melinda-gates-hall-cornell-university-morphosis-architects.asp Sat, 15 Nov 2014 23:30:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7589-bill-melinda-gates-hall-cornell-university Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Morphosis designed the Bill & Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell to emanate a certain insouciance in a quiet area of the upstate campus.   Photo © Roland Halbe Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University As visitors approach Gates Hall along the north face of the building, they find that the fluttery stainless-steel panels are attached to the glass facade by means of steel tabs, which create a thick architectonic wall.   Photo © Roland Halbe Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Inside, a daylit atrium has orange fritted glass on the north wall as well as the east one by the staircase.   Photo © Roland Halbe Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University The entrance lobby in the atrium is defined by a bulging metal wall, while ample glazing permits views of the various spaces above.   Photo © Roland Halbe Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University A 151-seat lecture hall on the lower level, underneath the main entrance plaza, is treated very simply, with white pleated walls of perforated wood.   Photo © Roland Halbe Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University A student lounge occupies the cantilevered end of the third floor behind the steel truss on the west facade. An etched glass floor brings indirect natural light into the space that juts out over the entrance plaza.   Photo © Roland Halbe Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Thom Mayne explores a new set of ideas in his first major project for his hometown in 10 years.

]]> 1405-emerson-los-angeles-morphosis-architects.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7975-emerson-los-angeles Emerson Los Angeles The east and west facades of the dorm towers feature high-performance glass in a curtain wall behind a motorized sunscreen. The project is aiming for LEED Gold.   Photo © Roland Halbe Emerson Los Angeles A virtuosic mix of forms house the classroom and production spaces.   Photo © Roland Halbe Emerson Los Angeles An undulating scrim of 3,000 folded aluminum plates shimmers in the building’s central core.   Photo © Roland Halbe Emerson Los Angeles The cantilevered form in the central core of the building contains a conference room.   Photo © Roland Halbe Emerson Los Angeles The main lobby and reception area are accessible from the second-floor outdoor terrace.   Photo © Roland Halbe Emerson Los Angeles Images courtesy Morphosis Architects Emerson Los Angeles Images courtesy Morphosis Architects Emerson Los Angeles Images courtesy Morphosis Architects Emerson Los Angeles Images courtesy Morphosis Architects Emerson Los Angeles Images courtesy Morphosis Architects 'Forceful,' 'acrobatic,' 'muscular,' 'raw,' even 'gritty' are usually the operative adjectives to describe the architecture of Thom Mayne (2013 AIA Gold Medalist) and his firm, Morphosis.

]]> perot-museum-of-nature-and-science-morphosis-architects.asp Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7916-perot-museum-of-nature-and-science Perot Museum of Nature and Science The museum's cube sits atop a free-form plinth eroded by a glacial flow of curtain wall.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science Plunked next to an elevated highway that separates it from downtown Dallas the museum's cube sits atop a free-form plinth eroded by a glacial flow of curtain wall.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science From the parking level to the west, visitors can ascend an arcing ramp to the top of the plinth and enter the museum lobby. Precast-concrete panels, creased and puckered, form a highly textured cloak that seems held together by a glass cartridge containing one leg of the escalator.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science On the plinth roof, Morphosis, working with Talley Associates, created a garden of local stone and vegetation, where precast elements like those found in the cube seem to have fallen off the building.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science On the plinth roof, Morphosis, working with Talley Associates, created a garden of local stone and vegetation, where precast elements like those found in the cube seem to have fallen off the building.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science Inside the lobby the stone shards continue, as if detritus had flowed in from the outside.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science In the atrium a precast-concrete curved vertical element seems to twist like a tornado through the stair and escalator hall, which admits daylight through large expanses of glass.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science Like a sunrise at the center of the earth, the design for the 300-seat 3-D theater on the main level sends jagged shafts of light through the acoustical stretched fabric framing a screen digitally printed with a pattern of stem cells.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science From the main lobby, visitors walk on a ramp under polygonal fiberglass pods that seem magnetically attached to the mesh ceiling.   Photo © Roland Halbe Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Image courtesy Morphosis Architects Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Photo by Laura Mirviss/Architectural Record Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Photo by Laura Mirviss/Architectural Record Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Photo by Laura Mirviss/Architectural Record Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Photo by Laura Mirviss/Architectural Record Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Photo by Laura Mirviss/Architectural Record Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Photo by Laura Mirviss/Architectural Record Perot Museum of Nature and Science   Photo by Laura Mirviss/Architectural Record A new restaurant in New York's West Midtown has a vibrantly designed interior based on the basketball player's obsessions.

]]> west-midtown-restaurant.asp Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7249-clyde-fraziers-wine-and-dine-by-morphosis-architects Vertical baffles carrying photographic images of Frazier back the glass curtain wall along Tenth Avenue. Clyde Frazier's Wine and DineMorphosis ArchitectsNew York CityVertical baffles carrying photographic images of Frazier back the glass curtain wall along Tenth Avenue.Photo © Roland Halbe The colorful metal fin structure floats above the dining area, the bar, and the lounge. Inspiration came from Frazier's clothes. Clyde Frazier's Wine and DineMorphosis ArchitectsNew York CityThe colorful metal fin structure floats above the dining area, the bar, and the lounge. Inspiration came from Frazier's clothes.Photo © Roland Halbe The polychromatic palette of the suspended metal fin construction shifts to gold tints and patterns at the bar. Upturned LED lights dramatize the jazzy hyperkinetic ceiling. Guests ambling past the b Clyde Frazier's Wine and DineMorphosis ArchitectsNew York CityThe polychromatic palette of the suspended metal fin construction shifts to gold tints and patterns at the bar. Upturned LED lights dramatize the jazzy hyperkinetic ceiling. Guests ambling past the bar down a ramp, edged by the a black-and-white photographic scrim on the exterior wall, end up in a lounge at the north end.Image courtesy Morphosis Next to the bar is a 10-by-21 1/2-foot foul-shooting court lined in oak. Clyde Frazier's Wine and DineMorphosis ArchitectsNew York CityNext to the bar is a 10-by-21 1/2-foot foul-shooting court lined in oak.Image courtesy Morphosis Movin' & Groovin''the name of one of the restaurant cocktails also conveys the spirit of the totemlike images of Clyde Frazier at the south entrance to the restaurant. Clyde Frazier's Wine and DineMorphosis ArchitectsNew York CityMovin' & Groovin''the name of one of the restaurant cocktails also conveys the spirit of the totemlike images of Clyde Frazier at the south entrance to the restaurant.Image courtesy Morphosis Clyde Frazier's Wine and Dine Clyde Frazier's Wine and DineMorphosis ArchitectsNew York CityImage courtesy Morphosis goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) 0708federal.asp Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/8043-us-federal-building-by-morphosis At a time when Americans are deeply divided about the role of government and whether judges should interpret or apply the law, courthouse architecture has become a potential battlefield.

]]> 0703courthouse.asp Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/8007-wayne-lyman-morse-united-states-courthouse